So, the basic rule of thumb for getting free food in Israel is to pretend that you’re interested in becoming a better Jew. I’ve discovered a plethora of seminars that offer free food after ulpan during that 1-2 time block that is perfect for an afternoon sanck. Nothing much, mostly pita and humus, but whatever free food I can get, for minimal effort. Last Wednesday, I went to a lecture on Talmudic Jewish Dream interpretation from a campus from Visa: Your Passport. It was a fascinating lecture and a really entertaining speaker. The basic premise at the end was that your dreams are calling you to be a better Jew, but if you take the Jewish part out, your dreams are basically telling you to step above settling for life substitutes, such as food, and focusing on bettering yourself, like in the pursuit of knowledge. Basically your dreams are a mixture of earthly senses, and our imaginations. Jewish writings offer a confusing mix of the preposition that dreams are the “thoughts of our hearts” stating that we dream about what we think about, that “a dream is a sixtieth part of prophecy” so that a dream is a minor prophecy, and that a dream is a mix of prophecy and nonsense. And an interesting part of this is that the Talmud states that someone that doesn’t dream over a period of seven days is evil. Luckily I dreamed yesterday, so I pretty sure that I’m not possessed by the devil.
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